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Robin Trower
English
Musician
About the author
I don't tend to have a favorite album; I tend to have favorite tracks. There are flaws in every album that spoil it for me.
Robin Trower,
English
Musician
#Favorite
#Flaws
The ability to make music is a gift that you're born with; it's not something you can learn.
Robin Trower,
English
Musician
#Ability
#Music
I was very keen on people like Elvis, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Gene Vincent.
Robin Trower,
English
Musician
#People
My songs are more arrangements than they are songs.
Robin Trower,
English
Musician
#Songs
Music has nothing to do with your technical ability.
Robin Trower,
English
Musician
#Nothing
#Ability
#Music
It's impossible to play a run with as much feeling as a single note. I've never been so much into runs as making single notes cry.
Robin Trower,
English
Musician
#Play
#Feeling
I can't say I feel influenced by today's guitar players.
Robin Trower,
English
Musician
#Today
#Guitar
A wah-wah is important as well. I love it; it makes the guitar scream.
Robin Trower,
English
Musician
#Love
#Guitar
A certain death of an artist is overconfidence.
Robin Trower,
English
Musician
#Death
#Artist
I've always been the first to admit that Jimi was a very big influence on my early stuff.
Robin Trower,
English
Musician
#Influence
#First
If I could sing, I wouldn't be a guitarist.
Robin Trower,
English
Musician
It was an experience being on a Beatles tour. They weren't very good. The singing was great, but the playing was a bit weak.
Robin Trower,
English
Musician
#Being
#Experience
#Singing
I think the fundamental part of my technique is my vibrato.
Robin Trower,
English
Musician
I feel I've been blessed with a gift of creativity and composition. That's why I've been able to keep going.
Robin Trower,
English
Musician
#Creativity
I feel that my playing on the first album was probably some of my best.
Robin Trower,
English
Musician
#First
I go for as much feeling as I can rather than show what I can do up and down the neck. I don't play to show people ability.
Robin Trower,
English
Musician
#People
#Play
#Feeling
#Ability
I go through about two Fender mediums a night because I don't pick straight down; it's sort of sideways, and it shaves them off.
Robin Trower,
English
Musician
#Night
I got a guitar when I was about 14, for a Christmas present, and went from there.
Robin Trower,
English
Musician
#Present
#Christmas
#Guitar
The first real thing I heard was Three O'Clock Blues by B.B. King. That's where it all began for me.
Robin Trower,
English
Musician
#First
I have done some things that I'm very proud of. I don't think you can say any more than that, really.
Robin Trower,
English
Musician
I have short hands. That's why I have to bend up to notes; I can't always reach the frets.
Robin Trower,
English
Musician
I didn't want to get attached to one guitar; I didn't want to have an instrument that was irreplaceable.
Robin Trower,
English
Musician
#Want
#Guitar
I think it's a sensible thing not to read your fan mail - not to take it too seriously.
Robin Trower,
English
Musician
#Mail
It all comes down to the density of the wood. Every guitar's different.
Robin Trower,
English
Musician
#Wood
#Guitar
When I was a little kid, I was very impressed with Elvis.
Robin Trower,
English
Musician
When you start believing you're something special, then you're not going to be striving to move forward.
Robin Trower,
English
Musician
While I was with Procol Harum, the only time I'd see my guitar was either when I walked onstage or in the studio.
Robin Trower,
English
Musician
#Time
#Guitar
I wouldn't count myself as being a true blues guitarist because I feel you have to live it.
Robin Trower,
English
Musician
#Being
The States still has the best audiences by far.
Robin Trower,
English
Musician
#states
#Audiences
Radio is commercial, isn't it. Its a business.
Robin Trower,
English
Musician
#Business